Next Saturday (12th March) sees our first ‘live’ art auction for 2022 here in Whanganui at Heritage House. There will be a maximum 150 entries and the auction should take no more than 2½ hours. Starting at 2pm this means that anyone living within 3-4 hours’ drive of Whanganui will be able to make a day […]
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Russell McVeagh is pleased to have assisted the Westpac Group complete the sale of its New Zealand life insurance business to Fidelity Life this week. The $400 million sale includes a 15-year strategic alliance agreement for the exclusive provision of life insurance products to Westpac New Zealand retail customers. Ian Beaumont, Russell McVeagh’s Corporate Partner who led
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Deputy Public Service Commissioner Helene Quilter QSO announced the appointment of Ms Karen Chang to the position of Director and Chief Executive, Serious Fraud Office. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is the lead law enforcement agency responsible for addressing serious and complex financial crime in New Zealand. The SFO also works to prevent financial crime
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Sean Phelan* One striking feature of the “freedom convoy” protests in Ottawa, Wellington and elsewhere has been the intense antagonism towards “mainstream media” (MSM). These antagonisms are expressed not only in now familiar descriptions of MSM journalists as sinister agents of a wider power elite, coupled with pity or scorn for the befuddled “sheeple” who
Two well-known and proudly Waikato owned law firms are joining forces in April this year, growing their ability to service the wider Waikato region. Harkness Henry and Cambridge Law have a proud history in the Mighty Waikato and plan to strengthen bonds further in a joint partnership moving forward under the Harkness Henry brand
Ian Fleming may be known as the creator of James Bond but when it came to work and career advice the famed author was someone who took risks in his own careers, ensuring that opportunities were not wasted but were grasped with both hands. A reporter who had worked at Reuters, covering a Moscow
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Ross Hendy* The continued occupation of parliament’s grounds by anti-vaccine mandate protesters (and others) provides a unique problem for police: how to lawfully and legitimately remove the occupiers without making the situation worse. The Speaker of Parliament has authorised police to clear the grounds, which grants the operation legitimacy. But tactically the options are not as clear-cut.
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Leading law firm, MinterEllisonRuddWatts advised Soul Machines on its USD70 million capital raise led by Japanese venture capital firm, SoftBank. The Auckland based AI start-up plans to use the new funds to expand its research into mimicking human intelligence, and boost its teams based in Auckland and at its second research centre in Arizona. The
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Increased regulatory and enforcement action will be a key driver shaping the litigation landscape in the year ahead, say MinterEllisonRuddWatts’ leading dispute resolution team in its annual Litigation Forecast 2022. >> Latest NZ law jobs Here . . New jobs daily Partners and co-leaders of the national law firm’s Dispute Resolution team, Jane Standage and
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An arrest warrant has been issued for one of two former Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) employees facing Serious Fraud Office charges. The SFO has filed charges including conspiracy to commit an offence, namely obtaining by deception; money laundering; and causing loss by deception against the former OFC employees. The charges, filed late last year, relate
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